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Desalting facilities are in operation in places like Kuwait, Curaçao and Israel. In the U.S., with technical assistance from the Interior Department's Office of Saline Water, Buckeye, Ariz., and Port Mansfield, Texas, both turned to desalination after their water became too brackish. With the threat of water shortages and pollution mounting, other cities can be expected to follow suit, especially as nuclear power becomes available to make large-scale desalination projects more economical...
They looked like lotus blossoms in their pastel ao dai, sweeping by the aging buildings of Harvard Yard. The blossoms were 46 frail South Vietnamese businesswomen, aged 25 to 45, who last week, after a brief stopover in Washington, moved into a Radcliffe College dormitory and began attending the International Marketing Institute's classes held at Harvard Business School...
Died. Ngo Dinh Le Thuy, 22, petite, doe-eyed daughter of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of assassinated President Diem, who just before the 1963 coup accompanied her mother on that famous U.S. speaking tour during which she captured her own share of attention with her fetching ao-dai, later moved to Paris while Mme. Nhu set tled in Italy; of injuries in an auto collision; in Longjumeau, France...
Secret Weapon. Madame Ky, freshly round-eyed from plastic surgery in Tokyo (TIME, Dec. 23), got nearly as much attention as her husband. Aussie papers breathlessly reported each change of dazzling, multicolored ao dai that she wore, analyzed her hairdos and even printed enlargements of her shoes. The consensus: a stunner. Said Prime Minister Harold Holt: "Marshal Ky's strikingly beautiful wife is a secret weapon who has added to the tour's success...
...first dilemma posed by 150 is whether to seek I-O or I-AO status. I-O status exempts the CO from all service in the armed forces. The CO classified I-AO is eligible for non-combatant duty and usually serves as a medic. It is much easier to get a I-AO than a I-O because I-AOs count toward fulfilling local boards' quotas. Draft boards often bargain with CO's seeking I-O status and try to get them to settle for I-AO. A stock question which draft boards pose is "Would Christ help civilians...